The Ethical Demand (Revisions: a Series of Books on Ethics) - Hardcover

Løgstrup, Knud Ejler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268206996 ISBN 13: 9780268206994

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Knud Ejler Løgstrup’s The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in English translation. Originally published in 1956, it has again become the subject of widespread interest in Europe, now read in the context of the whole of Løgstrup’s work. The Ethical Demand marks a break not only with utilitarianism and with Kantianism but also with Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism and with all forms of subjectivism. Yet Løgstrup’s project is not destructive. Rather, it is a presentation of an alternative understanding of interpersonal life. The ethical demand presupposes that all interaction between human beings involves a basic trust. Its content cannot be derived from any rule. For Løgstrup, there is not Christian morality and secular morality. There is only human morality.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981) was professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the University of Aarhus until his retirement in 1975. He is the author of numerous books in Danish. English translations of central texts from other ethical works by Løgstrup are available in Beyond the Ethical Demand (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

Hans Fink is professor emeritus of philosophy at Aarhus University.

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University and Rev John A. O'Brien Senior Research Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, A Short History of Ethics, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0268206996
• ISBN 13: 9780268206994
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342
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